I don't think I would've known who Huss was if not for the online annotations; he appears only a handful of times, and when he does, I wasn't even able to tell what other characters were present.
― A Grape Ape Agape (Leee), Friday, 15 February 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
J R was great, I’m less enchanted with The R and maybe it suffers from having less formal constraint than J R but there’s plenty to like about it anyway
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:45 (one year ago) link
i like carpenters gothic the most or a frolic of his own. i liked how carpenter's gothic was told from the point of view of the house. sometimes i wish he would just write -said susan idk once in a while
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
"She lives just outside Paris, in a place called Banlieu."
"Mi playa!"
Loved the Recognitions and only kinda liked Frolic.
Oddly I don't have a single memory of Carpenter's Gothic. I guess it is possible that I never read it. Doesn't seem like me not to have ever tried - back in my 20s it was exactly the sort of thing I would have been into. But I really don't remember. Weird.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
frolic is the funniest one
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
Cranky old guy writes cranky old guy, film at eleven
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Where do I sign up?
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
I'm listening to the audiobook of J R now and it's quite a performance by Nick Sullivan.
― Chris L, Monday, 1 May 2023 13:42 (ten months ago) link
Here’s a 2020 article on how it was done if anyone’s interested. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/17/i-cried-actor-120-characters-to-life-jr-william-gaddis-nick-sullivan-audiobook
― Chris L, Monday, 8 May 2023 13:19 (ten months ago) link